Big Blue didn't wow any of their fans with a sometimes-ugly 31-18 defeat of Carolina Sunday. But they did lay down a potential blueprint for a winning formula in 2010. And by winning formula I mean 9-7 or potentially 10-6:
Couple of good runs. Some occasionally great plays by the receivers. Passable passing from Eli. A defense that allows some scoring, but gets an advantage when the G...

The darkest days for the New York Giants in the last decade have been spent hosting the Carolina Panthers at the Meadowlands.
In the 2005 playoffs, Eli Manning and the Giants offense were shut out by the Panthers on their home field, 23-0. Just last season, the Giants were looking to keep their playoff hopes alive in a critical game against Carolina. Perhaps more importantly, it was the fin...

With final roster cuts made on Saturday, its time to look at GM Jerry Reese’s and Coach Tom Coughlin’s decisions regarding the final 53-man roster heading into the opening game against the Carolina Panthers.
This typically conservative tandem made some borderline head-scratching moves, provoking questions from Giants analysts and fans, alike. Let’s break it down, unit by unit.
Quarterba...

The New York Giants team is set for their season opener on September 12th against the Carolina Panthers now that they made their final cuts of the season. Victor Cruz the free agent WR out of Massachusetts made the team which wasn't too much of a surprise, but what was a shocker was free agent WR Duke Calhoun beating out Derek Hagan for the final WR spot. Other surprise cuts for the G men wer...

As we embark on the last pre season game of the year, it hit me that the PSL acronym has seemed to have changed. PSL as many Giants fans know stands for “Personal Seat License” where the fans had to shell out their hard earned bucks just to have the right to pay to see their favorite team play in the New Meadowlands Stadium. Now we can debate whether that is worth it, and as one of ...

So we all know the preseason is merely just a tune up for the veterans, play a quarter in the first game, maybe six plays in the second game and a huge opportunity for the unknowns to make a name for themselves (Victor Cruz anyone?). However one game really does matter and that is game three, where the team is solidified, the starters play most of the game, the real unknowns don't play much, bu...

After back to back 1,000 yard seasons in 2007 and 2008, the New York Giants felt obligated to pay Brandon Jacobs handsomely; $25 million over four years, to be exact.
The Giants were impressed by Jacobs’s productivity, if not his durability. After the retirement of Tiki Barber, Jacobs was given the majority of the carries. He played only 11 games in 2007 and 13 games in 2008, yet still ...

At the behest of my former radio co-host at Marist College, I will be more analytical of the final three pre-season games as opposed to providing game facts and reporting. I feel this is the best route to take given that pre-season games are meaningless with the exception of judging player performance.
The Giants fought admirably without their starting quarterback and 2/5ths of their starting...

Two of the greatest franchises in all of sport will match up for a meaningless game at “The New Meadowlands Stadium” (anyone else bothered that we don't call this one Giants stadium?) Saturday night at 7PM EST. The Giants (2007) and the Steelers (2008) have won two out of the last three Super Bowls and always produce championship/playoff caliber football year in and year out doi...

A few words could accurately describe the start of the New York Giants’ preseason and none will make Tom Coughlin happy. Sloppy, lazy, and disorganized are all appropriate adjectives for Big Blue’s first true challenge, despite the fact that they beat the New York Jets, 31-16.
Their lack of preparation and carelessness was underlined when RB Brandon Jacobs ran into QB Eli Manning unexpect...

New year, new stadium, new supremacy for that other NY football team; not so fast, everyone in this city needs to just calm down with the Jets mania. This town has belonged to the Giants, the storied and proud franchise who has been to four Super bowls and won three of them since the last time the Jets were in the big game. Admittedly, the Jets have a lot going on these days, starting with the...

Since the team drafted Lawrence Taylor in 1981, the New York Giants have been a football franchise renowned for its stingy, hard-hitting, no-nonsense defense. That all changed last year when New York’s defense was one of the most exposed units in all of football and led to the demise of a team that started with a 5-0 record.
During the 2009 season, the Giants gave up the third most poi...